Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-10-29
STATE NEWS
.gman claims 4 $50 people.


LabeHe county has fifteen divorce
cases to be tiled this fan
Less than one-ffth of the graduates
II the AtChison schools are boys.
Over 100000 tons of coal are dug
rom the soil Of Kansas every year.
The general average price Of new corn
throughout the state is 30 cents per
1ushel.
Donipt an county is to have a free for
al campaign this year, no conventions
% he held.
It is reported that a couple of China
men at LsOti, VIII open a real estate
flee.
Parsons has under consideration a
/ iropOsit:0n for the establishment OF a
furniture factory.
The magnificent Washington county
court house was entirely paid for Lefore
It's comp eticn.
Washington Register: The sale Of
Eat cattle in this county exceeds $780,
600 per annum.
( Cedar Vale Star: Our fishermen have
caught quJte a number Of fine bass in
| the past two weeks.
Hiawaiha World: Over 100 boys
answered the Worlds advertisement for
carriers inside of two days.
The employees OF the Santa Fe depot
at Sterling are all memt ers Of one
Tamily. There are four Of them.
The Kansas blcyclists will hold their
annual meeting at Ottawa on the Goth
instant -Four fine badges will be offered
As prizes for the races.
An election was recently held at
Horton on a proposition to build a good
,rI Z school house. Not a vote WAS
pOlled against it.
The notorious John n. Reynolds, Of
/ Atchison, has been sentenced TO two
wears in the state penitsntiaFy for fraud
ulently using the United States mails.
Kinsley is to have a shCe factory
allch will employ 100 men. The
proprietors viii Do Massachusetts, Leu,
who are now engaged in that business.
The G rden City Herald figures that
f Kansas were as deusely populated as
is New Englandit would contain 80. 600,
OJO people.
The Dolds agree TO put up a packing
house at Wichita if forty acres of land is
donated and S15OOOO in stock taken by
local capitalists.
The Stockton Ne15s says that the
water works liant at that place is a
success. An abundance Of pure fresh
water is obtained.
At the state fair this fall, Seward
county took the first prize for best
agricultural display, Stanton county
second and Morton county third.
Under the new ruling made by She
general land Office, notice for timber
culture proof must be published the
same as hOmesteads and pre- emPtiOns
Norton Courier: The commissioners
will place a proposition before the PEG
pie, 10 be voted On this fall, for bonding
he county for a $4,000 court house.
At the Linn county fair, two chairs
we're presented to Mr.. and Mrs James
Osborn, as the oldest residents OF Linn
county. They have lived in Linn for
thirty years.
Oberlin Herald: O. @. Reynolds has
four or five rOsebushes in full bloom in
mis- garden. This makes the second
series Of flowers the bushes have brought
OTth this year.
The postmaster Mt Abilene is complain
/ ing becsuse the government allows him
only two carriers to cover the city and
avs it is impossible for that city TO be
"A successful free delivery Office without
m re carriers.
Cottonwood Valley Tunes: The far
meP5 OF southern Dickinson and northern
Marion cOunti-s have organized a com
paly and located a creamery one mile
-ast aud six miles ID nth OF KuhBbrOok
onstOfEice, TO be operated in connection
With Hope ereamsFy.
/ Oberlin Eye: William YosF, residing
near NoraBtur, had a g. year cid child Bit
ten by a raJilegnske last Thursday.
It died from the effects last Sunday
The child was chasing the suHke around
he house aud playing with it when
bitten. 1t was bit in three places.
Charlotte Wilson, an old colored
woman visiting Oswego last week, claims
to he more than one hu0dred years OLD.
She say she served as a waiter It the
6aFq uet given In honor OF President
Madison at Ralsigh, n. O in 1918.
Among the attractions on exhibition
at the Kansas City exposition is a house
Quilt OF ears Of eOrn raised ia Sheridan
Ouuty, Kan. Il stands ten feet high
nd twelve feet square, with doors, win
dos chimneys, ere.
i Kansas Odd Fellows number IA 559.
Tuiz De. an increase Of 1888 members in
one yesr. Sickness fOI which benefits
Rsrs paid, average for the year, 35
weeks Tor each 100 menberF, which is
yearly per cent greater than the
average Of last year.
A girl named Croy, employed ct a
restaurant at Kingnan, died sndii-Dly.
/ last we-k. She seems to have had a
prsmonitlon Of her death. An hour b.
tore dying she said to a companion:
IF die won't you loan me a skirt to Be
buried inf"
The Sunday closing ordinance pass
I cd by the Lawrence city council is being
enforced in that city. It is stated ih.t
8 majority OF the citizens al prove l..
[ News stands, cigar stores, fruiE stores,
I ste, can not keep open on that day. News
oys and boot blacks are forbidden
I 70 ply their Vccations on Sunday. News
! .genss On railroad trains sell Sunday
I 1apsrs 70 those who are &C thu depot.
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